Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement

All people – including patients, caregivers, community partners, and other stakeholders – bring value to clinical research and should be involved as partners in every stage of the research process.

Our Thinking

For too long people outside of the research world have not been embraced as full partners in the design and conduct of clinical research. The DCRI believes that all people – including patients, caregivers, community partners and other stakeholders – should be partners in research.

These stakeholders have the potential to impact every stage of the clinical trial life cycle, including study design, funding, recruitment, protocol development, monitoring, data analysis, and FDA approval.

Bray Patrick-Lake

Director of Stakeholder Engagement

"There are no didactic presentations or transactional approaches that can be substituted for respectful partnerships, dedication to mentoring, and working hand-in-hand with patient advocates."

Research Together. What Is It?

At the DCRI, Research Together means that researchers and stakeholders work together at every step of the research process. Research Together means that relationships are bidirectional – everyone learns from each other and everyone gains value.

DCRI’s Research Together program provides sponsors and investigators with access to DCRI thought leaders who understand the science of engagement.

The Research Together program is led by Bray Patrick-Lake, MFS, Director of Stakeholder Engagement at the DCRI, and supported by a team of Communicators, Clinical Project Leads, and Participant Engagement Liaisons.

Highlights

The Making Of A Patient Advocate

Publication

Key characteristics can help identify patient partners who may become knowledgeable and skilled research advocates, but their growth and skillful contribution are highly dependent on co-learning and investments made by other stakeholders in the clinical trials enterprise.

Listening to the Patient

Podcast

Adrian Hernandez, MD, DCRI cardiologist and principal investigator, and Patient Partner Lesley Maisch discuss how patients are redefining the way clinical trials are conducted in the context of the PROSPER trial.

Want more from Adrian and Lesley on the power of patients and the value of their feedback? Read their blog post.

Collaboration: The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative

Situated within the DCRI, the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), a public-private partnership co-founded by Duke University and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, seeks to develop and drive adoption of practices that will increase the quality and efficiency of clinical trials.

People

Bray Patrick-Lake, MFSDirector, Stakeholder Engagement

Bray Patrick-Lake, MFS, serves as director of stakeholder engagement for the DCRI. She Patrick-Lake leads the DCRI’s participant engagement work on Project Baseline, a partnership with Verily, Duke, and Stanford to develop a well-defined reference, or “baseline” of health, and the NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program.

Patrick-Lake previously served as director of stakeholder engagement for the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) and director of patient engagement for the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). She also served as co-chair of the advisory committee to the NIH Director for the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program (now All of Us), which was launched in 2015 to create new models of patient-powered research and provide clinicians with new tools and therapies. Recently, Patrick-Lake was named to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Health Science Policy board.

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